Homeopathic Remedies for Normal Delivery

In each medical system there may be something unique, and without arguing which one is the best, the
intelligent man takes the best from each.
70 to 90 PER CENT OF CAESAREAN SURGERIES CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH THREE DOSES OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE.
The foetus (baby in the uterus of the pregnant mother) 1-3 weeks prior to delivery date (so long remaining in
upright position) turns upside down, and the uterus descends down in such a way that the head of the foetus
remains fixed in the pelvic floor of the mother. 1-3 weeks later, at the delivery time the mouth of the uterus
dilates and the child comes out. Even after the full term of ten months if the child does not turn upside down, or
turns half-way and lies crosswise or having turned upside down, does not descend further down, the attending
lady doctor would say that head is still floating or is in incorrect position and so opens the abdomen to take out
the child. This is called caesarean surgery. 70 to 90 per cent of caesarean surgeries at the present day are
conducted solely for this reason.
(1) At this time if the patient takes three doses of the homoeopathic medicine Pulsatilla-1000, every 4-8 hours, in
the next twenty-four hours it would be a normal and safe delivery.
In the reference book The Accoucheur's Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D., of U.S.A. we find the
following :
"Abnormal presentations may be righted if Pulsatilla is given before the membranes are ruptured or the
presenting parts are firmly engaged..."
In a maternity hospital, Pollachi Road, Dharapuram, Tamilnadu, by using Pulsatilla and other remedies there
has not been even a single caesarean for the past several years and the doctor in-charge has put up a
board"Caesarean-free'' Clinic. The Dharapuram Lions Club has given her a certificate testifying this.
(2) If the baby in the uterus stops growing, allopathy has no cure and they abort it. But if one single dose of the
homoeopathic medicine Secale Cornutum-10M is given, the baby starts growing. (See Calvin B. Knerr's
Repertory, p. 698. Pregnancy, foetus, development arrested: Sec.)
(3) After caesarean (or for that matter after any abdominal surgery) there would be pain in the sutured place
lasting for years. But one single dose of the homoeo medicine Staphysagria-1000, completely cures in twentyfour hours all post-operative abdominal discomforts.
(4) Some newly married women are prone to urinary infection and they spend in thousands. Again, the same
homoeo medicine Staphysagria-1000, in one single dose, would cure the condition in just a day's time.

Homoeopathic Therapeutics for Elderly

SENILE, SENILITY, PRESENILITY OR

PREMATURELY SENILE
[
Senile =
Related to the involutional changes associated with old age. Senile dementia = Deterioration of mental activity
in the elderly associated with an impaired blood supply to the brain.
Senility =
A state of mental and physical deterioration resulting from old age.

Presenile =
Prematurely aged in mind and body. See also Dementia.]
Pruritus senilis:
Ars., Bar-c., Calc-p., Con., Cop., Crot-t., Dolichos., Fogop., Mez., Sulph.,
Senile gangrene:
oxygen, amm. m., ars., chin., con., euphor., phos. ac., plumb., sec., solanum.
Senile uraemia:
iod., lyc.
----------------Agaricus (Paralysis) sense of languor as if the body were bruised and the joints dislocated; sense of weariness and weakness all
down the spine; paralysis of lower limbs, with slight spasms of arms; palsy of upper and lower limbs from
incipient softening of spinal cord; paraplegia from congestion of lumbar cord; violent pains in all paralyzed parts;
pain in lumbar region and sacrum, agg. while sitting or during exertion in daytime; formication in upper and
lower limbs as if gone to sleep; limbs cold, blue; crosswise affections. senile tremor.
Allium cepa gangrena senilis, woman, aged 80 (externally as a salve).
Allium cepa woman, aged 80; senile gangrene.
Allium cepa (Ulcers) ulcer on heel from friction; gangraena senilis.
Ambra (Asthma) asthma senile et siccum; also suitable to children and scrofulous persons, with short, oppressed breathing,
paroxysms of spasmodic cough, with expectoration of mucus, wheezing in the air-passages and pressure in the
chest, followed by eructations of wind from stomach; asthma accompanied by cardiac symptoms, oppression of
breathing and a feeling as of a load or lump in left chest and fluttering in the region of the heart, or palpitations,
especially in nervous, thin, scrawny women; oppression in left chest through to the back and between the
shoulders, as if emanating from the heart, with palpitations, anguish and loss of breath; asthma while attempting
coition
Ambra grisea tearing pain in upper half of brain. senile dizziness.
Anacardium orientale senile dementia.
Ant-tart (Asthma) asthma senile; asthma of children; anxious oppression, difficulty of breathing and shortness of breath, with
desire to sit erect; oppression and suffocative fits, coming on suddenly, agg. evening, morning, in bed; mucus

and rattling in chest; suffocative cough or congestion of blood to chest and palpitation of heart; gasping
inhalation, feeling of fulness and contraction of chest; the cough after having lasted some time becomes loose
and relieves the contraction of chest.
Ars-alb. (Asthma) periodical asthma; asthma of senility, after suppressed coryza and coexistence of emphysema and cardiac
affections; loss of breath immediately on lying down, in the evening, with whistling and constriction in the
trachea, agg. from motion; must incline chest forward, must spring out of bed, especially about midnight, in
order to breathe; chest feels as if too narrow; throat and chest feel as if bound together; increasing dyspnoea
with despair and anxious sweat all over; asthma from fatigue, from emotions, from suppressed itch; agg. after
coughing, with sensation of contraction of chest and stomach, abating as soon as he raises frothy saliva, thick
mucus or streaked with blood; amel. from warmth, warm food, agg. from cold things.
Ars-alb. (Gangrene) senile gangrene; ulcers extremely painful or entirely insensible, with elevated edges, secreting a bad, watery
foetid ichor; hard, shining, burning swelling with bluish-black, burning vesicles, filled with acrid ichor, amel. from
warmth, agg. from cold; extreme restlessness; gangrene accompanied by foetid diarrhoea; great weakness and
emaciation; numbness, stiffness and insensibility of the feet; general coldness with parchment-like dryness of
the skin, followed by heat.
Ars-alb. (Pruritus) itching with burning or an eruption emitting watery fluid like sweat and attended with much constitutional
weakness; chronic cases; senile pruritus in broken-down constitutions, agg. from cold applications, amel. from
warmth; itching of genital organs.
Ars-alb. gangrena senilis sicca, with coldness, desire for more covering; > from warmth.
Arsenicum iodatum arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart.
Arsenicum iodatum senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration.
Asparagus off (Dropsy) old people with heart disease; weak action of heart; when urinating the last drops, constricting pain in cardiac
region, turns blue in face, urine has an unpleasant odor; must sit up in bed to relieve dyspnoea. hydrothorax in
senility on a gouty diathesis.
Bar-c. (Debility) suits first childhood and senility (old age) with mental or physical debility; old people, especially when fat or
when they suffered from gout; constantly weak and weary, wishes to lean on something, to sit or lie down, and
still feels weak and weary; deficient memory, absent-mindedness.
Baryta carb emaciation senilis
Baryta carb (Asthma) asthma senile (after ant. tart.); suffocative catarrh of fleshy old people, with impending paralysis of lungs; cough
and shortness of breath in old phlegmatic persons; night cough with asthmatic breathing, chest full of phlegm,
want of clear consciousness; whining mood; circumscribed redness of cheeks; immovable pupils; cold hands

and feet. asthma of scrofulous children, with enlargement of tonsils and cervical glands; light hair; agg. from wet
weather, warm air, and followed by frequent and copious urination.
Baryta carb (Insanity) senile dementia, mental and physical debility; mental weakness and timidity of dwarfish children with
undeveloped brain, who learn with difficulty because they cannot remember; forgetful, in the midst of a speech
the most familiar words fail him; loss of memory, especially for recent events, groaning and murmuring,
pusillanimous; peculiar dread of men, imagines she is laughed at, which frightens her; full of anxiety and evil
forebodings about the most trivial affairs; no self-confidence, fears to undertake anything; full of delusions,
thinks his legs are cut off, and that he walks on his knees; aversion to strangers, fear of and in the presence of
others
Baryta carbonica affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries,
aneurism, and senility.
Baryta carbonica senile dementia.
Baryta muriatica arterio-sclerosis of the lung, thus in senile asthma, modifies the arterial tension.
Benzoic acid (Heart, diseases of) gout or rheumatism affecting the heart and nodular swellings in the joints; pains change place incessantly, but
are more constant about heart; awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of heart and temporal arteries; at
times tearing rheumatic pains in extremities relieve the heart; palpitation and trembling while sitting, agg. after
drinking, at night; undulating or intermitting beats of heart; dysuria senilis; urine dark and of an offensive odor.
Benzoic acid (Kidney/bladder stone) nephritic colic; morbid condition of urine in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis; urine containing urates of
ammonia and having a strong ammoniacal smell. dysuria senilis from irritability of the bladder and mucopurulent discharge.
Benzoic acid (Prostate gland, diseases of) enlargement of prostata; sensibility of bladder with muco-purulent discharge; dysuria senilis; weak loins, when
the gravel is trifling; urine of a repulsive odor; formication at anus.
Benzoic acid (Urinary difficulties) vesicular catarrh; irritability of the bladder; nocturnal enuresis in children; too frequent desire to evacuate the
bladder, urine being normal; decrease of the quantity of urine, which is thick and bloody; urine has strong odor
like that of horses and contains excess of hippuric acid (nitr. ac.); urine brownish, cloudy, alkaline or darkreddish, high specific gravity and acid reaction, sometimes of a putrid, cadaverous smell; morbid condition of
urine, as in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis; dysuria senilis, when gravel is trifling and the irritable
state of bladder and pains are induced by other causes, with too frequent desire to urinate, though urine
appears normal.
Bufo rana prematurely senile.

Carbo veg gangrene: humid; senile; in cachectic persons; when vital powers have become weakened; great foulness of
secretions; great prostration. - sepsis; indifference; fainting after sleep, while yet in bed, morning; no
restlessness. - moist skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily.
Cataract (Cataract) bar., bell., calc., calc. fluor., cann. sat., caust., chel., colch., con., dig., lyc., magn., magn. mur., natr. m., phos.,
ruta, seneg., sep., sil., spig., stram., sulph.; for traumatic cataract: amm., arn., con., cupr., puls., ruta, caust.,
calc. carb. or fluor.; for stony cataract in arthritic patients: phos.; for granular (fatty) cataract with arcus senilis:
phos., sil.; in the cataracts of young persons: caust.; constant inclination to touch and rub the eye, in order to
relieve pressure: lyc.; after typhoids or suppression of menses, disorders of nutrition in the deep-seated
structures of the eyes: sep.; when dependent upon uterine disorders and climaxis or hepatic affections: sil.
(epithelial hyperplasia); from suppression of habitual foot-sweats, disordered nutrition and after inflammation of
eyes: sulph.; from right to left, after skin affections which were suppressed (psor.), or from general perversion of
health: colch.; for rapidly forming capsular cataracts: caust., plumb.; for reticulated cataract.-compare: burnett,
curability of cataract.
Causticum broken down seniles.
Cocainum hydrochloricum chorea; paralysis agitans; alcoholic tremors and senile trembling.
Conium (Apoplexy) the senile women's remedy; numbness, with sensation of coldness on one side of head; headache, as if head
were too full and would burst, morning when awaking; hemiplegia, sweat as soon as he falls asleep and even
with the closing of the eyes.
Conium (Asthma) asthma senile; scrofulosis with enlarged and indurated glands; dry, nightly, tickling cough; evening dyspnoea,
agg. in wet weather, in the morning when awaking; want of breath from slight exercise; copious mucous
expectoration with the cough.
Conium (Insanity) senile dementia, ailments of old maids and widows from ungratified sexual desire; folie circulaire, alternate
excitement and depression; cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on physical and mental depression,
weakness; inability to sustain any mental effort, excessive difficulty to recollect things, especially dates; desire
for solitude and unsympathizing insensibility from indolence; aversion to company and yet averse to being
alone, is inclined to abuse company, scolds and will not bear contradiction; chilliness, frequent spasmodic
motions; weak sexual power and frequent pollutions; anaemia of brain.
Conium (Sexual complaints) premature senility; atrophy of testicles, bad effects from suppressed sexual desire or from excessive
indulgence; painful seminal emission instead of the normal pleasurable thrill; sexual desire without erection or
with an insufficient one; pollutions, with subsequent excitement of the sexual desire, even when merely dallying
with women; discharge of prostatic juice during every motion, without lascivious thoughts.
Crotalus hor (Insanity) incipient stage of senile dementia; mental delusions, such as mistakes in keeping accounts or writing letters,
forgetfulness in figures, names and places; awaking at night struggling with imaginary foes; thinks he is the prey
of enemies or of hideous animals; dislike to members of his own family; marked indifference and apathy, seems
only half alive; fits of drowsiness or coma; apoplexy in broken-down constitutions or inebriates.

Crotalus hor (Melancholia) timidity, fear, anxiety; weeping or snappish temper, cross; irritable, infuriated by the least annoyance; sadness;
her thoughts dwell on death continually; twitching and nervous agitation; lethargy, loss of co-ordination; incipient
stage of senile dementia.
Crotalus hor. hd., aged 69, during incipient stage of senile dementia, delusions, etc. - mental delusions, such as mistakes in
keeping his accounts and in writing letters, forgetfulness of figures, names and places; awaking in the night
struggling with imaginary foes; imagines himself surrounded by enemies or hideous animals; taking antipathies
to members of family. ---incipient stage of senile dementia.
Cuprum-met. gangrena senilis of foot in a man.
Digitalis (Pneumonia) pneumonia senilis, the heart's action failing; respiration irregular and performed by frequent deep sighs;
respiratory murmur feeble; cough agg. about midnight or towards morning, from talking, drinking anything cold,
bending body forward; passive congestion of lungs, depending on a weakened, dilated heart; cough with
profuse, loose, purulent sputa or of a sweetish taste, sometimes with a little dark blood; passive hyperaemia of
brain, which feels fatigued and weak.
Digitalis (Prostate gland, diseases of) senile hypertrophy of prostate, cardiac symptoms marked; dribbling discharge of urine and continued fulness
after micturition or fruitless effort to urinate; throbbing pain in region of neck of bladder during the straining
efforts to pass water; increased desire to urinate after a few drops have passed, causing the old man to walk
about in distress, though motion increases desire to urinate; frequent desire to defaecate at the same time; very
small, soft stool passed without relief; urine pale, slightly cloudy, looking smoky.
Digitalis senile pneumonia.
Dolichos senile pruritus.
Drosera. the attacks of cough are of a spastic character, depending on irritation of the vagus, and affect the bronchi;
whooping cough, bronchial catarrh, bronchitis in senility, emphysema and bronchiectasis.
Euphorbium (Gangrene) gangrene following gastritis or enteritis, temperature continually falling; inflammation and swelling, followed by
cold gangrene; great torpor; insensibility of parts affected; chilliness and shuddering over whole body;
gangraena senilis.
Fagopyrum pruritus senilis.
Ferr-met (Pneumonia) pneumonia senilis; laxity of fibre; pulse soft and quick, or slow and easily compressible; dyspnoea slowly
increasing; bloody expectoration; epidemic pneumonia, dyspnoea gradually increasing, no pressure under

sternum; pale, stupid face; roof of mouth white; skin neither burning nor cold and damp; pulse never hard and
full.
Ferrum pic. senile hypertrophy of the prostate. epistaxis.
Hyoscyamus (Pneumonia) pneumonia, with cerebral symptoms, delirium, sopor; dry, fatiguing night cough, or rattling in chest; pneumonia
complicated with typhoids; hypostatic pneumonia in the course of other chronic affections; pneumonia senilis,
with acute oedema of lungs; pneumonia of drunkards.
Ichthyolum rectal suppositories for senile prostate.
Ictodes spasmodic asthma; senile catarrh.
Iodum (Uraemia) uraemia from senile hypertrophy and induration of prostata; urine dark, thick, ammoniacal; chronic congestive
headache in old people.
Jaborandi contra-indicated in heart failure, and in post-puerperal uraemia, and in senile cases.
Kreosotum senile gangrene.
Lachesis senile erysipelas. - senile gangrene.
Lobelia inflata senile emphysema.
Lycopodium (Bronchitis chronica) distressing, fatiguing, tickling cough, agg. afternoon, and evening, and on going to sleep and in the morning;
chronic bronchitis, with copious muco-serous or muco-purulent sputa; congestion of liver, flatulency,
constipation, cachectic complexion, red gravel, acid dyspepsia; dry cough, day and night, in feeble emaciated
boys (florid scrofula); emphysema, dilation of air-tubes and senile catarrh; respiration short before and during
cough, ending with loud belching; salty expectoration; emaciation of upper part of body; great fear of solitude.
Mezereum. man, aged 74, weak and dyspeptic, a subject of emaciation senilis; pruritus senilis.
Moschus premature senility.

Opium (Pneumonia) infantile pneumonia, where the pulmonary inflammation is disguised by symptoms of cerebral congestion and
oppression; cyanotic color of the upper part of body, with slow, stertorous respiration; pneumonia senilis et
potatorum, with similar symptoms; difficult intermitting breathing, as from paralysis of lungs; blood thick, frothy,
mixed with mucus; great oppression, burning about heart, tremor, feeble voice; anxious sleep, with starts; chest
hot; hot perspiration all over body, except lower limbs; sudamina; bed feels too hot.
Phosphoric acid (Gangrene) senile gangrene. - external parts become black.
Phosphorus (Headache) irritable weakness of nervous system; exceeding susceptibility to external impressions, can bear neither light,
sounds nor odors; pulsating, throbbing headache, agg. from music; brain-fag from mental overwork and
constant strain of eyes; sudden shooting pains in head, especially vertex, agg. walking fast, when lying down,
amel. fresh air; cold, crampy pain on whole left side of head; sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with
sensation of stiffness in the brain; weight and throbbing in forehead on walking, agg. on stooping, amel. by cold
washing; hot vertex after grief; senile cerebral atrophy; softening of brain with persistent headache, slow
answering questions, vertigo, feet drag, formication and numbness of limbs; in washerwomen fear of washing,
as it causes rush of blood to head, red face and eyes, heat in head; weakness of memory and difficulty of
thinking; accumulation of much saliva during headache, agg. by thinking, warmth and excitement, amel. by
repose, cold and open air, cold washing; bald spots here and there on scalp.
Phosphorus (Headache) washerwomen's headache; senile cerebral atrophy; brain-fag from mental overwork and constant strain of eyes;
salivation with headache (epiph.).
Pulsatilla (Pruritus) itching and burning on inner and upper side of prepuce; itching, agg. at night, from pastry or pork, from delayed
menses, amel. from cold water. pruritus senilis.
Rhus aromatica enuresis due to vesical atony; senile incontinence.
Rhus tox (Vertigo, dizziness) violent vertigo when lying down, with fear that he would die; vertigo, everything turned with her, especially when
standing or walking, when sitting, when lying; giddy when walking, as if she would fall forward or backward;
when walking, dizziness so that he scarcely sees the men standing before him; vertigo after walking or stooping;
swashing feeling in brain when moving about; heavy feeling in legs; senile changes in brain.
Secale woman, aged 80; senile gangrene.
Secale (Insanity) paralytic mental state; insanity with inclination to bite, with inclination to drown himself; impaired power of
thinking; apathy and indifference; treats his family with contempt and sarcasm; wandering talk and
hallucinations; great anguish, wild with anxiety; senile dementia, senile gangrene
Secale cornutum incipient cataract, senile especially in women.

Staphisagria (Vulva, pruritus and tumors) - prurigo senilis, or from parasites; stinging-itching of vulva.
Strophanthus senile vertigo.
Tarentula cubensis "senile" ulcers.
Thlaspi bursa pastoris (Urinary difficulties) haematuria; dysuria and strangury, amel. after passing a quantity of renal sand; urine turbid, with deep-red
sediment (needs proving); dysuria senilis.
Tuberculinum bovinum kent as the surgeon before the anaesthetic, so must the physician know the heart before administering this drug,
especially to children and seniles-and to young seniles.
Vipera (Dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) nausea, vomiting, with vertigo and dyspnoea, syncope, jaundice, colliquative diarrhoea, palpitations; numbness
and general lassitude; dyspepsia of old people, or of persons prematurely senile, suffering from spasmodic
affections of throat and chest; periodical attacks of dyspepsia.
----PRESENILITY
Bufo rana prematurely senile.
Vipera (Dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) nausea, vomiting, with vertigo and dyspnoea, syncope, jaundice, colliquative diarrhoea, palpitations; numbness
and general lassitude; dyspepsia of old people, or of persons prematurely senile, suffering from spasmodic
affections of throat and chest; periodical attacks of dyspepsia.

Efficacy of Samuel Lilienthal's Homoeopathic Therapeutics in Clinical Practice

Editor : In the following article Author has shared cases from his clinical practice wherein the successful use of
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS in cases has helped him choose the similimum and
provide complete cure to his patients.
What is Lilienthal's Homeo Therapeutics and how to use it?
Actual cases treated successfully are given below:
CASE 1: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: "Doctor, look at him. The boy is making constant
movements of his fingers. He often becomes violent and restless. This started six months ago. We went to

allopathic hospital and they diagnosed his case as worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even double
the adult dose of it had no effect. Then we went to a homeopathy specialist. (She showed me the prescription:
"Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-30 daily night, for one month".) He has completed one month course of
these two remedies but no result."
I looked at the boy again and the case sheet. 'Case sheet' means plain white sheet on which we start writing
down one below the other what all the patient and/or his relatives tell us. After a pause, the mother told me with
wide-open eyes, "Doctor, ever since he developed worm complaint he often complains of headache and vertigo.
Why is it so doctor?"
I went through all the remedy descriptions in Lilienthal under the chapter 'WORM AFFECTIONS.' Thirty-four
remedies are described and the words 'vertigo and headache' told by the mother (which is an 'uncommon'
symptom in worm complaint) were found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa. This remedy in 200th
potency, single dose, cured worm symptoms as well as his skin complaint.
CASE 2 : Fifteen years of sore throat and constipation completely and permanently cured with one single dose:
A certain middle aged patient came to me at 3 p.m. asking if I can give him some throat paint for his sore throat.
I told him that I would give pills only and asked him to tell me how long he is suffering etc. (something to make
the patient talk about his complaints.) He replied:
"Doctor, I have this for fifteen years. Daily at 3-4 p.m. it starts, so much burning in mouth and throat that in the
evening I am unable to do poojas (later I learnt that he is a priest in Hindu temple there he has to use loud voice
to utter verses during worship etc.) loudly because my voice becomes husky. The burning pain would continue
in the night, but next morning there won't be any pain.
In this case only one symptom is prominent - "< evening, night."
I went through all the remedies under the chapter SORE THROAT in Lilienthal. The symptom "< evening" was
found under the remedies Alumina, Hepar, Natr. mur and Silicea. But in Alumina it is "< evening and night."
Further, under the remedy Alumina the words "clergyman's sore throat < evening and nightwith husky
voice" suited the case. Just to confirm the remedy (since it is one of the remedies for chronic and obstinate
constipation) I asked him about his bowel movements, to which he replied that he would pass stool once in 3-4
days.
Alumina-10M, single dose, cured his chronic sore throat as well as constipation. (I never knew that he got
complete cure till one day when I casually visited the temple in which that priest was doing poojas. I had even
forgotten him. Looking at me he immediately removed a big garland from around the neck of the deity and put it
on me (this is a sign of honoring V.I.P.s in Hindu temples). I was rather puzzled. He gave me fruits etc. and
came out with me till the entrance while other big heads were waiting by paying heavy amount etc. That night I
narrated this to my house-owner who does part-time work in that temple and he said that I was honored
because my prescription of one single dose completely cured that priest, which he used to recall almost daily.
Yes, drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!
CASE 3 : This an interesting case. A boy of twelve was brought to me for lung tuberculosis. I asked the boy a
few questions (no standard questionnaire etc. please) just to make him talk-name of his school, what games he
plays etc.
Nothing 'uncommon' or 'rare-strange-peculiar' or 'mind symptom' came out. I got up and went to the cupboard of
medicines, took out a bottle and was preparing doses of some medicines.
At this time it occurred to me to consult Lilienthal. I studied all the remedies given under the chapter PHTHISIS
PULMONUM. While doing so, under the remedy Lycopodium, the words "observing disposition" made me to
pause and ponder. I found that the boy was constantly observing me at what all I had been doing, writing on the
case sheet, referring to books, preparing the doses etc. I could remember that unlike other patients, he was
constantly observing me.
Lycopodium 10M was prescribed. Next month he was due to report. He did not. Later when I met the boy's
father, he said, "Oh! He is perfectly alright now. That is why we did not come to you again."

The next case is very interesting and educative too.

CASE 4 : A certain breastfed baby was brought to me for constipation. On the symptoms (which I don't
remember now) I prescribed one dose of Nux vomica-30. The lady came three days later saying that with the
one dose the child passed normal stool the next morning. But constipation relapsed.
It has never been my experience that one dose acted for one day only. I only thought that my selection of Nuxvom was wrong. To select a better (correct) remedy, I looked through all the remedies given under
"CONSTIPATION" in the Chapter "CHILDREN, DISEASES OF" in Lilienthal. I read Nux-vom. Also wherein the
following words under the remedy caught my attention:
"the nurse takes too much coffee and lives too high.
On questioning she affirmed that she took seven or eight cups of strong coffee daily.
I gave one dose of Nux-vomica 30 to be given to the baby at bedtime and emphatically told the mother that she
must (i) either stop coffee or (ii) stop the breast feeding. She agreed to take light coffee 1-2 times only. After the
second dose of Nux-vomica there was no relapse of constipation. Without Lilienthal I would only have
concluded that my first prescription of Nux-vom. was wrong and would have meddled with the case by changing
the remedy.
Remember the words of Dr. Samuel Lilienthal: "Drop a symptom in the slot and you get the remedy." Yes, it is so
quick and certain in some cases. Much less than the time needed to switch on the computer, leave alone
opening the software etc. etc.
Selection of the remedy manually with the repertory (ies) is neither difficult nor time-consuming. It is definitely
quicker than the computer. What is time-consuming and difficult is Case Taking which the computer cannot do
even one per cent.
Most homeopaths consider "totality-of-symptoms" and so administer a questionnaire to the patient, but they are
not taught that "Totality-of-uncommon symptoms" is the correct method. [Section 153 of the Organon]. In any
patient "uncommon, rare, strange or peculiar" symptom is one or, at the most, two only. For referring these one
or two symptoms to the repertory, doing it manually is definitely quicker than the computer, as explained in the
above four cases cured with the help of Lilienthal.
Homeopathy software is not altogether useless. It can certainly do a better job in the hands of researchers and
authors of books. But, unfortunately, homoeo software is dumped into the heads of innocent practitioners. The
real and ideal use of computer is in the hands of those who are doing compilations, preparing manuals,
indexing, writing special repertories, therapeutics like Lilienthal and so on.
MIND SYMPTOMS-UNCOMMON SYMPTOMS-CLASSICAL OR HAHNEMANNIAN HOMOEO-PATHY-Section
213 and 153 of the Organon
Most homoeopaths are being lured by 'mind symptoms' in practice.
In Section 153 Dr. Hahnemann advises that we must consider 'rare-strange-peculiar, uncommon' symptoms and
in S. 213 he continues that without selecting a remedy on 'mind' symptoms a cure is not possible
When S. 153 is read with S. 213 we get the following:
"rare-strange-peculiar, uncommon mind symptoms."
Mind symptoms not at all related to the pathology of a disease (that the patient is suffering from) are
'uncommon.' Actual treated cases alone can illustrate 'mind' symptoms. [Mind symptoms as listed out in the
repertories may not be told by the patient.]
CASE 5 : A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors.
Those doctors showed me the file containing the diagnostic and other papers of the patient. After this, one by
one, the relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, "Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out
and do our business work. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my

children, they should only tell me that I am all right and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging
me for speedy recovery they have branded me a permanent and incurable patient."
The reader may note here that in most cases the 'uncommon' symptoms (on which we can make a prescription)
is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription!)
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from his or her
sons and relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely
missing in his case.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
" a feeling of moral deficiency" - Kali brom.
" despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation" - Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
We are quoting this not as a case report but it is an actual case to illustrate how to translate the words of the
patient as mind symptom.
The 'uncommon mind symptom' may, in most cases, be one only. In the above renal failure case, the above
quoted two symptoms cannot be classified in any existing rubrics in the repertory. Homoeo software would be of
utter failure. The practitioner must memorise the symptom of the above two remedies and keep it in his finger
tips. Homoeopathic practice is not a mechanical work but it is artistic. Therefore homoeo software would but be
a mockery.
To illustrate this point, let us examine more cases; in all the following three cases, only one "uncommon" mind
symptom was present and the reader, after studying the three cases, would at once agree that with computer
and homoeo software he cannot do anything to find the similimum.
CASE 6 : A lady of 55, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief.
She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is less than one kilometer
from my clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school.
Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3minute treatment once only; for this she need not pay any fees and also she would get total relief. Since the
acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied,
"I have to come all the way from ... (her place of residence.)
During the last three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my
clinic. Sunday is holiday for the school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all the
way from her residence thirteen kilometers away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay anything and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling 13
kilometre cannot be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how we selected the
remedy on this symptom let us see the other two cases also.
CASE 7 : A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday morning for two hours.
She consulted for her complaints and got partial relief of her ailments. Once she said, "Doctor, can you give
one-dose treatment for my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every
week he has to take drugs?" I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him
completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or
something immoral. To this she replied, "For this I have to bring him all the way from my home (which is just
twenty kilometers away.)
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for that he is going to get total relief permanently) she
hesitates.
Only if you actually listen to the patient's reply in person you may understand this. Let me explain and elaborate
on this.

Suppose you (the reader of this book) are my student and one day I ask you to murder a certain person. What
would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under:
"Sir, I have to do" (The sentence would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job
pricks your conscience.)
But in the abovesaid two cases for merely travelling 15-20 kilometre they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking
them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are overconscious of a trivial thing. The apt term
would be "Conscientious scruples." This symptom is in the remedy Aresenicum album. [See Lilienthal - p.694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the computer-software or 'Remedy
Finders' are of no use. To the above sinusitis case one single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured
her and even acupressure treatment was not given.
CASE 8 : This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees.
To this he replied, "Money is" (The sentence would be incomplete and they would talk hesitatingly as if they
are asked to do some big immoral act.) He should say either that he has no money or that he would try to
borrow from relatives. But he does neither.
The above cases illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a given patient. In some cases
the repertory or software is not useful and you have to memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
----Let us now examine what is meant by 'uncommon' symptoms. Some of the most useful uncommon physical
symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertory and so it is better to learn them.
For example, under the remedy Ignatia we find the words "great contradictions." (Boericke Mat. Med.) A
haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation. [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over
and after a pause, the patient leans forward towards you and with wide open eyes (exclaims)] "Doctor one
thing. Every one says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my
case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel
movement I get both burning and bleeding.
The contradictory symptom is both ways. Hence Dr. William Boericke writes in plural: "Great contradictions".
Ignatia-1M, single dose cured this patient.
CASE 9 : Mr. N. 55 years reported: "Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon after lunch I have
distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get terrible pain in the leg"
You cannot 'repertorise' this case. The case is very simple. His symptom is to be classified as under:
"Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the afternoon and legs in the night"
In Boericke's Materia Medica under the remedy Ammonium Mur . we read as under:
"Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest
symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile
symptoms, in the evenings."
It may not be out of place if we write here that the above patient had been to so-called leading, experienced,
and classical and Hahnemannian homoeopaths who had treated him with various medicines for months without
relief.
Let us reiterate the following:
HOMOEOPATHY IS A SYSTEM WHERE THE PATIENT HIMSELF (BY SOME WORDS OR ACTIONS OR AS
A REACTION TO HIS DISEASE OR TREATMENT OR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DOCTOR) indicates the
remedy to us.

Homoeopathy is practical and practical only and there is no place for any theory, imagination, etc.
Homoeopathy has no theories or principles. But in the shops we find books on "Theory and Principles
of Homoeopathy!"
Let us now go to the last case which would illustrate 'mind symptoms.'
CASE 10 : A certain renal failure patient, under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant, was under our
treatment. We could not find his remedy.
There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die because the donor
kidney stops functioning. After transplant he was heard saying, "Now I feel as if I am released from prison... as if
I have taken a rebirth." This he said because he is now freed from torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis,
taking rest, body becoming weak etc.
This attitude or expression of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words
desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow (See Lilienthal-MELANCHOLIAIgnatia, p. 698)
We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would start functioning and even
if the donor kidney fails he would live long.
----CONCLUSION
(A) Among medical systems homoeopathy is the best short-cut to cure patients in one single dose of one
remedy or a few doses of one or few remedies. For example, we have cured lakhs of chikungunya patients
completely and permanently with one single dose of the homoeo medicine called Polyporus Pinicola-10,000X;
so also, many tested and confirmed swine flu patients were cured with one single dose of Merc-sol. 10,000X.
(B) One of the best short-cuts to homoeopathic practice (to select the remedy-similimum) is Dr. Samuel
Lilienthal's Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!)
(C) The short-cut for the use of the reference work Lilienthal is page number 693 to 702 therein (the chapter
Melancholia) and also the chapters Insanity, Emotion etc. as the following case would show:
CASE 11 : A mentally deranged patient, 32 years, unmarried, stopped going to work from his twenty-fifth year.
The father reported: "He does not take bath daily; just sits at home; never goes out and meets his friends;
smokes cigarettes continuously and sees porns in the T.V. Doctor, one more thing after passing daily
bowel movement, he takes little feces in hand and rubs it on his head. It is quite disgusting
I read the remedies give on pages 620 to 634 of Lilienthal under the chapter "Insanity" and the following extracts
from the remedy Merc-sol. agreed with the case:
"homesickness senseless, disgusting actions"
Merc-sol. 10M one single dose cured him.

Interpreting Patient's Language for Remedy Selection

Editor: In the following article Author has explained through different cases how to interpret patient's language
for Remedy Selection. Interpreting patient's language into language of material medica is an art which comes
from practice and experience; so we hope author's experience will help our dear readers in their clinical
practice.

Single-dose-cure for chikungunya and swine flu.

During the years 2006-2008, almost all homoeopathic practitioners had been giving different remedies for
chikungunya disease (mainly Rhus. tox and Eup. perf.) to be taken for days and weeks with little relief. The
undersigned was the first to declare that the homoeopathic remedy Polyporus Pinicola-10,000x is almost a
specific for chikungunya and with this remedy GIVEN IN ONE SINGLE DOSE, my students had cured lakhs and
lakhs of chikungunya victims during the years 2006 to 2008. (Rate of success: more than 97%).
I am not proud of the above, because it is my duty, as Professor of homoeopathy, to find out the remedy for any
epidemic. [A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.] Be that as it may.
Though, all practitioners had cured several cases of chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus, what was
disappointing is that not even a single homoeopath came forward to ask me as to how I selected Polyporus
Pinicola for chikungunya.
These homoeopaths (who had cured chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus) are now asking me what
homoeo medicine is to be given for swine flu. I am not satisfied with this query. But I would be much pleased if
they had asked me how I arrived at Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya and further how to find out the remedy
for the present pandemic swine flu.
I don't mind declaring the name of the correct homoeopathic remedy which would be almost a specific for swine
flu. Before this I would, first of all, like to teach the practitioners as to how I found out the remedy for
chikungunya. This is more important. Such a teaching alone would help the reader to find out by himself a
remedy for future epidemics.
Chikungunya disease begins with fever, shivering and joint pains. Many patients had to crawl for going to the
toilet etc., because of crippling joint pains. Their faces were "gloomy."
(See Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory-MIND AND DISPOSITION-Gloomy, in ague: Poly.)
(ague: malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering)
Now, coming to the much dreaded swine flu.
a.
b.

those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure
swine flu starts with fever, sore throat and body pain.

Step 1: Fever with body pain, sore throat. The rubric that you must take for this in Kent 's Repertory is under
GENERALITIES. "Inflammation, internal:"
Step 2: Disease of lung that speedily kills any patient; the equivalent rubric in Kent 's Repertory is Pneumonia
(CHEST: Hepatization of lungs)
The remedies scoring more points (being common to the above two lists) are Cactus=4, Iodum=5, Kalic-c.=4,
Kali-iod.=4, Lach.=5, Lyc.=4, Merc-sol.=4, Nux-v.=5, Phos.=6, Sulph.=5, Tereb.=5
These remedies were studied in Samuel Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS under the chapter
PNEUMONIA; Under Merc-sol we find the following words
"epidemic broncho-pneumonia".
On the same page under the remedy ferrum met. also, we find the words "epidemic pneumonia". But we do not
get this remedy in repertorisation.
Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given the homoeo medicine Mercsol-200 (daily one dose for three days only) and after a week when they tested, the result was negative. All their
symptoms disappeared. (Rate of success: 97%).
For prevention, the same remedy Merc.sol. 2-- may be given one dose once a month for three months. This
prevents swine flu for six months from the date of taking the first dose.

In homoeopathy, cure is easier and quicker than prevention.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: In Section 213 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann tells us that without prescribing a remedy
on mind symptoms a cure is not possible. Let us now see how the remedy Merc-sol satisfies this requirement.
In big organizations when a person is affected with fever, sore throat and body pain he is advised NOT TO
COME TO OFFICE. In other words, the awe-stricken non-affected persons run away from the victims as if they
are their enemies, for fear of contracting swine flu.
A lady took her 5-year old son to a doctor. There a patient came to consult the doctor because he was declared
positive for swine flu. Immediately on hearing this that lady started running away with her son, lest he may be
infected.
The otherwise healthy person considers the victim of swine flu as his enemy. The victims are asked to keep off
till cured.
Under the Chapter "MELANCHOLIA" in the reference book HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel
Lilienthal, (page no.700 under the remedy Merc-sol.) we find the following words:
anxious restlessness as if some evil impended constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy.
The following extracts from the WILKINSONS' MATERIA MEDICA (under the chapter 'Mind' in the remedy Mercsol.) also confirms my selection of this remedy for swine flu.
...Desire to flee, with... anxiety and apprehension.... did not know what to do... Inexpressible pain of soul and
body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended...
As this mind symptom is found in those who had not got the disease, the remedy Merc-sol. is indicated as a
preventive. In one of the big multinational companies office at Chennai, about 300 persons were working on the
first floor. Immediately on hearing that two of their colleagues tested positive for swine flu, all of them started
fleeing. This attitude is found in almost all persons who are running here and there for prevention of swine flu.
Therefore, Merc-sol is almost a specific both as a preventive and curative.
What is most disappointing is that no one talks about
Dr. Lilienthal's work HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles
in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, " it is an extraordinarily useful book
and those who add it to their library will never feel regret"
In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS as under:
"For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable to the older one who says he has no use of this book, we
have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill."
CASE 1: A patient with peptic ulcer, weeping eczema etc., came to me and said, "Doctor, I am not taking the
treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married and a son who is looking out for a job. Who
would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get
cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then
I can die peacefully."
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke's Materia Medica) we find the following:
"Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs."
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was
given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 2: A peptic ulcer patient's condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids were giving temporary
relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by
eating) he was heard saying, "I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this

hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has
been living with me for several years and helping me should take the house which I bought recently."
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1 above. One single dose of
Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on
'uncommon' symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above case 1 and 2 would show the reader that
(a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also,
(b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different remedies.
Let us now see further three actual cases treated where three patients, all of them having the same complaint,
viz., 'headache', were cured by different remedies:
CASE 3: A patient with chronic headache, after spending millions with various doctors and specialists came to
me. After finishing the history of his seven years' sufferings, he ended up saying: "Doctor, if you or any one can
cure me of this terrible headache, I won't mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to
him."
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore these words told by the patient at the end of his talk.
If a patient says that he is ready to pay 1.5 millions for getting his headache cured, we can say that he is
"deplorably downhearted." [deplorable = shockingly bad]
Under the homoeo remedy Stillingia (Wilkinson's Materia Medica), we find the words "deplorably downhearted;
suffering extreme torture from bone pains;" Stillingia, one dose cured him.
CASE 4: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: "Doctor, all these years I
have been having these torturing bone pains in head; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation
would satisfy me. Even if you make me President of all the countries in the world that would not be a sufficient
compensation."
The equivalent words or phrase for this statement of the patient would be:
Extreme sadness, abject despair, uncompromising melancholy
The above is found under the remedy Selenium (See Boericke's Mat. Med.)
Selenium-10M, one dose, cured him.
CASE 5: A middle aged man of forty walked in complaining of headache for a few months. After telling me that
he tried allopathy, ayurveda, homoeopathy etc. he told me that the pain in head started the previous year when
he was having malarial fever; though malaria was cured, pain in head continued. (Certain cases are the easiest
to work out; certain cases are difficult)
Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory: Chapter No. 40.
Fever, intermittent (ague):. with headache; Cina, Cist., Kali-c., Polyp.
Fever, intermittent apyrexia: headache, Arn., Natr.m., Polyp., Puls.
Polyporus Pinicola, being common to the above two lists was given in single dose. Total relief felt for a month
after which he reported relapse. The same remedy was given this time in single dose in a higher potency and it
is now more than seven years and he is free from headache. Also, his chronic constipation was cured.
Thus, in cases No. 3, 4 and 5 above though the complaint, viz., 'headache' is same in all of them, each patient
got different remedies.

To be precise, those symptoms which doctors of other medical systems would ignore, we take that and that
alone for prescribing or selecting the remedy in homoeopathy.
There are no specifics in homoeopathy.
Why should we do like this? Why not have a specific remedy for jaundice; and another for headache and so on
and so forth?
Our answer: Dear reader, the above method of prescribing on 'uncommon' symptom alone can cure patients
with one single dose or a few doses.
CASE 6: A patient consulted me for allergic rash on skin on both upper limbs and chest.
He said, "Doctor, for the last three years I have gone to allopaths, ayurveda, homoeopaths etc. They have
treated me for weeks and months with just five per cent relief. If I eat unstrained cooked rice or wheat flour
preparation I would get distension of my belly; that evening the rash on skin will start; in the night if I pass flatus
freely per ano or have a free bowel movement the rash would disappear."
CASE 7: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started talking: "Doctor, he has to
leave the house for school at 9.30 in the morning. He gets up at 6.00 a.m. By 7.30 a.m. he becomes so restlessjumps, cries etc. This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4 times loose bowel
movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes to school."
In both the above cases the symptoms that should come to our mind is given below:
"Symptoms disposed to appear perio-dically and in groups... intermitting . . ."
The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke's Materia Medica.) This remedy cured both the
above patients (case No. 6 & 7) in one single dose in the 200th potency.
CASE 8: A patient consulted me for constipation. Even laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use . He
further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he
would get convulsions.
The following under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson's Materia Medica) agrees with this case:
"Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles"
When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are
not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them
(increased irritability and action).
Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so
and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
CASE 9: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in
spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, "Doctor, ever since the accident I feel
numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg
anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident."
We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or indicates the remedy to us. In
Wilkinson's Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case:
"depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other"
Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
CASE 10: The one symptom in the remedy Belladonna (found in Wilkinson's Materia Medica) will highlight what
is meant by 'uncommon symptom'; also it would illustrate the uniqueness and superiority of Wilkinson's Materia
Medica.

A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding the twowheeler. He showed his medical file (given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:

hydroureteronephrosis-Left kidney
pain in femoral part of urethra

pain in sacral region.

His complaint (pathology) is in kidney/ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is
something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affectionkidney.
Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson's Materia Medica) we find the following:
"Inflammation of internal organs The inflammation runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts."
(Femoral part of urethra and pain in sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter)
Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.
CASE 11: Two years after case No. 5 above, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis. These patients get pain
normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain
in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.) Belladonna10M, single dose cured her.
CASE 12: A lady, the mother-in-law of a fourth stage cancer patient, came to me asking medicine for cancer.
When I asked her to bring the patient she said that he wouldn't come. I asked her to tell me verbatim what he
had said. She replied, "He does not say anything.''
At this stage I asked her whether she did not care to go and see her son-in-law who is said to be in fourth stage
cancer. She replied:
"My daughter wrote me a letter stating that doctors have said that he would live for another six months only, and
he is not afraid of death, but he wants to live with his family in the same quarters in which he had been living all
along and said that he does not want anyone (be it friends or relatives) to visit him.''
(Sometimes, we do get valuable symptom from the report of messenger or attendant).
Let us now see how to work out this case.
"Does not want anyone to visit him"
- Aversion to company
"Till death wants to live with family in the same quarters where he had been living all these years"
- Homesick
ask=================////////////////////////////????????????????
KENT'S REPERTORY was consulted:
Company, aversion to: (several remedies)
Homesickness: (several remedies)
Remedies common to these two rubrics and scoring more points are: Aur.-4, Carb-an.-6, Ign.-5, Nat-m.-5
To confirm one out of the above four remedies, they were studied in HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (By Dr.
Samuel Lilienthal) under the chapter "Carcinoma.'' Under Carb-an. we find the words "cachexia full developed".
Again, in the chapter 'Melancholia' under the remedy Carb-an. we find the following words: "desire for solitude."
Carb-an.-10M, single dose was prescribed. Patient is improving.
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CASE 13: Homoeopaths are not properly trained in the subject of case taking in five years of college study. The
other day, I was sitting in the clinic of a homoeopath.
A patient walked in asking the doctor whether he has medicine for diabetes. The doctor started giving a lecture
to the patient that he makes his prescription (?) on 'symptoms' and so the patient should first tell his symptoms.
The patient abruptly told, "Feel my pulse (stretching his hand towards the doctor)', give medicine." The poor
doctor turned to me and said, "this is the problem patients do not tell symptoms"
I told him to ask the patient to wait outside, then explained him how to classify or convert the very attitude/tone
of this patient into a mind symptom.
Let us recall and recollect the way the patient talked and his tone. In olden days, the king would talk as under:
"Let so-and-so- be brought before me alive or dead within twenty-four hours!" It is in 'imperious' manner (or
royal language) with an air of command. The manner of the king would be stiff and pretentious. So also, the
abovesaid diabetic patient talked in a similar manner. "Feel my pulse (stretching his hand) and give medicine."
In Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory, Mind (page 19) we find the following:
Answers, imperiously: Lyc
Lycopodium 10M, one dose cured the patient of his diabetes. Even if he had any disease other than diabetes,
Lycopodium would have cured him.
CASE 14: A lady in Chennai asked me if I can give medicine for her brother who complains of partial loss of
hearing with ringing in ears; this started at the time of train bomb blast in Bombay (in July 2006) in which he was
travelling.
I told her that the patient (if he cannot come to me personally) may write down his complaints and send it to me.
The lady told me that she would tell all about her brother. It is ringing in ears and partial hearing loss after the
train bomb blast. I insisted on the point that the patient should himself write down his complaints on a paper and
send it to me along with the report of E.N.T. doctor. (E-mail will not serve our purpose, nor telephonic talk).
Anyway, the lady brought a printout of e-mail from her brother that read as under:
"I am giving the details of how I am feeling after the incident. On that day I was practically deaf and could not
hear anything. There was a constant ringing in my ears and I was feeling very confused. At that time I did not
feel anything, but after reaching home and what I saw on TV, only then I felt very scared. I had some bruises on
my arm and my hair was completely filled with black powder. The ringing sound has not stopped yet. It becomes
louder in the evening. Now also as I am writing this, the sound is there.
I got my audiometry test done and it was diagnosed as low to moderate hearing loss in my left ear and
moderate hearing loss in my right ear. There is no rupture in ear drums. Now-a-days I feel very scared if I have
to enter local train. The thoughts about the blast keeps recurring and I am never normal while travelling. I must
have received some body blows during the blast on my back and neck. My right wrist hurts if I have to clamp
something with it. Both my arms ache. All sorts of negative feelings come in my mind and I have become a
nervous wreck."
We now turn to HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (hereinafter called "Lilienthal") and
the above three remedies (Bell., Calc., Lyc) alone are read under the chapter "EMOTIONS, Ill Effects of.-Fear,
Dread, Fright (page 377-378)".
The following words are found in the remedy Calc. Carb.
.< eveninggrief and complaining about old offences great tendency to be frightened. (portions relevant
to our case alone are quoted here).
Calcarea-Carb. 10M, was prescribed in one single dose. Taking bath would stop the action of Calc. Carb. (see
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica). Patient was advised not to take bath for a few days. Patient
is improving.

(We expect our readers to turn to and see the respective pages of the reference books as and when
mentioned).
CASE 15: Baby Lakshmi, four years (Referred to me by an allopath for 'muscular dystrophy')
The allopath was present and he pointed out that lower limbs alone are mostly affected and the child is freely
using both the upper limbs.
When the child was shown to me she started crying and the father said that the child was afraid of strangers.
Since the father did not say any further symptoms I asked him a general question as to what all diseases the
child had since birth (for which they had gone to a doctor and got treatment). The father replied that the child
had
(i) frequent fever with running nose;
(ii) discharge from ears;
(iii) frequent diarrhoea.
[Sometimes it is the past health history of the patient that may help us find the remedy.]
Now, the computer/homeo software is highly useless, as the following analysis of the case history would show.
The beginner (Dr. Hahenemann has said, "Many of my followers, I am sorry to say, are but half-converts.")
would simply select the remedies for (1) coryza, (2) ear, discharge and (3) diarrhoea. That is a mechanical way
and would be a signal failure. Let us now learn what is an artistic method of working out a case.
A correct interpretation of the above three symptoms for homeo prescribing is as under. Ponder on the above
three (past history) symptoms and you get the following:
(i) rhinitis (frequent fever with running nose is rhinitis)
(ii) otitis media (discharge from ear)
(iii) gastro-enteritis (frequent diarrhoea)
The suffix '-itis' appears in the above three symptoms. 'Inflammation of any part is denoted by the suffix '-itis.'
Therefore we look into KENT'S REPERTORY under GENERALITIES:
INFLAMMATION internally; Acon., Ars., Bell., Bry., Canth., Echi., Gels., Iod., Lach., Merc., Nux-v., Phos., Plb.,
Puls., Sec., Ter. (Top-grade remedies alone are taken)
The child is afraid of strangers. For this we should not take "Fear of strangers" but it is 'timidity'
KENT'S REPERTORY: (Page 88-89) MIND: TIMIDITY: plus above list = Phos., Plb.
We have to do the analysis which the computer-software cannot and would not do. The other claim that
computer is a time-saving device is farce.
Now, at this stage, that is, after having selected the remedies (on available symptoms) through the Repertory
we have to apply our knowledge of materia medica. By looking at the above two remedies we find that the
remedy Plumbum met. has more spinal symptoms (the reader must note that only lower limbs are affected while
upper limbs are in tact, which means affection of spinal cord). If we read Plumbum met. in Boericke's Materia
Medica the following words in the preamble agrees with the case:
paralysis is chiefly of extensors partial anaesthesia Progressive muscular atrophy. Infantile paralysis.
Excessive and rapid emaciation. Important in peripheral affections
(The parent told me that they noted that its lower limbs were weak only when she was one year old).
(As far as homeopathy is concerned, there is not much difference between atrophy/dystrophy/emaciation etc.
etc.)

Plumbum met. 10M, single dose, was prescribed and the child is making rapid recovery.
CASE 16: Mrs. S.V. 33 years, 17.06.2006 (date of first visit)
She wants to reduce her weight. Is obese and weighs 85 kilos. Complains of heaviness in chest with difficult
breathing (praecordial anguish?) which comes two weeks before menses and it continues till the next periods
(menses).
I note down as under in the case sheet:
Obesity - 85 kgs
Oppression (heaviness) in chest < before menses
I asked her just one question. (You can ask questions only if the patient stops talking and does not tell further
valuable symptoms. Valuable means 'mind' or 'rare-strange-peculiar-uncommon' or 'general' symptoms.)
My question: 'How long since you have this overweight?'
She replied, "Doctor, three years ago, I did MTP at 45th day. (Medical Termination of pregnancy - since she did
not want a second child at that time). A few months later, I developed pain in abdomen and after scanning etc.,
the doctor diagnosed it as appendicitis. While doing surgery they noticed lot of blood around ovary caused by
the surgeon's fault during MTP done earlier. So they removed my left ovary also. After that surgery only I started
putting on weight. I have sensation of weight in chest (oppression) and limbs."
CASE REPERTORISATION: For complaints developing after surgery we must take the following: Kent's REPERTORY - GENERALITIES - WOUNDS: constitutional effects of: Arn., carb-v., con., hep., iod., lach.,
Led., nat-m., nit-ac., phos., puls., rhus-t., staph., sul-ac., zinc. [Let us call this list No. 1]
As she did not tell any further symptoms, I decided to wait on placebo and so gave her 10ml pills, 5 pills (blank
pills containing no medicine) for a dose, twice daily, to report after one week. After collecting the medicine and
paying the fees, she got up to leave my clinic and at this time she asked, "Doctor, this obesity is nothing to fear,
isn't it?"
For these words of the patient, we should not take the rubric 'Fear.' We have to note here that the patient is
'serious' about the disease. The correct rubric for the symptom in Kent's Repertory is 'Despair.' (In a few cases
we get symptoms AFTER WE HAVE MADE THE PRESCRIPTION! The practitioner should not get angry or
irritated as to why the patient did not tell all these at the beginning itself.) I assured her that she need not be
afraid of obesity and that she would be cured soon.
Kent's Repertory - MIND - DESPAIR... long list of remedies [Let us call this as list No. 2]
The remedies arn., carb-v., con., hep., iod., lach., nat-m., nit-ac., puls., and rhus-t. are found common to the two
lists.
Our next step is to confirm one of the above remedies for the patient.
Under what chapter in Lilienthal, do we have to read? (in Lilienthal there is no contents page at the first pages
but only "index" at the end of the book).
We have used the symptom "Despair" for selecting the remedy. There are four chapters for 'mind' symptoms in
Lilienthal. They are 'Meloncholia', 'Insanity', 'Emotion', 'Hysteria'. The chapters are arranged in alphabetical
order. (In case of difficulty, go to the index at the end of Lilienthal).
For the present case, I read the above ten remedies under MELANCHOLIA (page 693)
The remedy Pulsatilla agreed with the patient because of the following words (on p. 701 - Lilienthal)
... grief and sorrowful timidity on account of his worldly and eternal affairs; anxious and weary of life, sad and
gloomy,... ...dissatisfied; very easily frightened... ...anxious... ...with praecordial anguish...

Some readers may ask as to why we had not taken the symptom 'obesity' for repertorising this case.
Our answer: The more you repertorise on pathological symptoms, the greater would be the failure. Symptoms
far removed from pathology are our best guide for selecting the remedy.
Pulsatilla-10M single dose was given with lot of placebo. After two weeks, she found lot of relief. Patient is still
under treatment.
CASE 17: Aswin, aged four, is brought by her mother for constant and chronic running nose (fluent coryza). I do
not ask any question. (Any interruption would only break the chain of thought of the narrator, and all they would
have said at first does not occur to them again in precisely the same manner after that. Foot-note to S. 84 of the
Organon.)
While I was going through Dr. Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory, the boy's mother breaks in, "Doctor, he is very angry
at times.'' (At this stage I simply note in the case-sheet the word anger.)
I copy on the case-sheet the following portions from Knerr's Repertory.
NOSE, Coryza, chronic: Calc., Canth., Colch, Cycl., Sil., Spig. (page 248)
MIND, Anger (plus above list); Calc.
At this stage, the lady tells: "Doctor, whenever he is at home on holidays, running nose is not there. But
whenever he goes to school, on those days, it is worse.'' To classify this last symptom is a somewhat difficult
job.
I now turned to Lilienthal.
At this stage, after a pause, the lady continues, "Doctor, two years ago he was diagnosed to be suffering from
primary complex and we gave a course of allopathic treatment.''
To classify the symptom (aggravation on the days of going to school) is a difficult task. For "primary complex' the
equivalent rubric in homoeopathy is phthisis (prodromal stage).
I just glanced through Lilienthal and under the chapter PHTHISIS PULMONUM (page 858) the following lines
under Calcarea Carb. caught my attention:
...very susceptible to external influences, currents of air, cold, heat, noise, excitement."
[When he goes to school he is exposed to air, noise, excitement and therefore the above quoted line confirmed
my selection of Calc. Carb.]
I gave this in 10M potency in single dose and the patient is improving.
----COMPUTER IN HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE: We have no objection to the use of computers in selecting the
remedy. But it is maya (a Hindusthani term meaning 'illusion') to think that selecting the remedy from the
computer is 'time-saving' and 'unfailing.' The reference book HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel
Lilienthal (for use as and when a case comes to us and not a textbook for study from cover to cover) is, in a fair
percentage of cases, quicker and unfailing than any latest computer software.
Somewhere Dr. Samuel Lilienthal aptly observes about his work, "Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get
the remedy."
Yes, it is that much quicker. Ten times surer and quicker than the so-called latest software, Radar, Cara etc. The
problem with software is (be it astrology, homeopathic selection of the remedy or any subject) that those who
had developed them are poor either in their knowledge of computer or the subject in which they have developed
the software. One has to be an expert both as a computer software professional and a wizard in the subject.
That is rare to find!

Before you start using Lilienthal's, you must remember the following words of Dr. Oscar E. Boericke (in the
PREFACE to the ninth edition of his REPERTORY):
"It is only by the persistent use of one repertory, that its peculiar and intricate arrangements gradually
crystallizes itself in definite outline, in the mind of the student of the same, and thus he attains the ready ease
and practical insight of the collator, thereby rendering such a clinical bee-line well-nigh indispensable in our day
of labor-saving devices."
We have such wonderful authors around 1930s that the arrangement and presentation of their works enable us
to select the remedy in no time.

HOW TO MAKE HOMEOPATHY MORE POPULAR

Dr. V. Krishnamurthy
Raman House
Old No. 21 Kuppaiah Street,
Chennai - 600 033. India
E-mail:chikungunya23@yahoo.co.in
Of late, there has been repeated hue and cry from our profession against governments and others for not giving
due recognition to homoeopathy. The remedy lies not outside but insideamong homoeopaths. If we improve
the quality of our practice, government and others (including allopaths) would automatically come forward not
only to recognise but also admire us. This paper is an attempt to this end.
I got the inspiration to present this paper because I started studying and practising homoeopathy out of sheer
academic interest. I started my career as a medical journalist. Forty years ago, while in New Delhi, when I
entered the scene of homoeopathy, one striking thing that I noticed was that while one homoeopath cured most
of his patients with one single dose (even obstinate chronic cases), another was giving more than one remedy
that too repeatedly, with partial or nil relief. Thus my journey started to fill this gap of knowledge among
homoeopaths. If you keep this in mind, you would evince much interest in what I am going to write further.
"It is very rarely the case that among the provings of our remedies not one is to be found which corresponds to
the characteristic features of a case"
"Homoeopathy is slow to win its way because of the defective use of books as well as because of defective
books."
[The above two quotations are from Kent's LESSER WRITINGS.]
Instead of listing out useless reference books, let me list hereinbelow (in order of their extent of usefulness),
only those books which are absolutely essential in day-to-day practice.
1. Samuel Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS
2. J. T. Kent's REPERTORY
3. Boericke's MATERIA MEDICA and REPERTORY

4. Hering's GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA

5. Calvin B. Knerr's REPERTORY
6. W. A. Yingling's THE ACCOUCHEUR'S EMERGENCY MANUAL
7. J. T. Kent's LECTURES OF MATERIA MEDICA
Actual cured cases presented below will justify the usefullness of the above books.
In medicine, emergency is the most important. Again in emergencies, nowhere else can one demonstrate the
superiority of a medical system than at the time of childbirth. Thus Dr. W. A. Yingling stands as a guiding star in
the sky of homoeopathy. In the preface to his book THE ACCOUCHEUR'S EMERGENCY MANUAL he states
that the most alarming haemorrhages stops in seconds after administering one single dose of the indicated
remedy. Be it mastery of the language or medical science or homoeopathy, his presentation should give total
confidence to all practising homoeopaths. Let him not practice homoeopathy who does not read at least once a
month, the Preface and Introduction in the book The Accoucheur's Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling.
Some portions from his book given below may not be out of place:
"The object of this Manual is to give assistance in the emergency, at the bedside, and to preclude the necessity
of carrying one or more large volumes as aids, or of going to the office for help... This work deals exclusively
with the remedies and their application to the abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly
before, during, or after labor or abortion. (italics ours)... In no class of cases will the homoeopathic remedy be
found to act more efficiently and speedily than in post-partum haemorrhage. It is really astonishing how rapidly a
profuse haemorrhage will cease after the administration of the properly selected simillimum. ...In each
emergency cases nature speaks plainly. The more danger to life the more plainly nature speaks." And, the
quicker the remedy acts!
Since emergencies of childbirth is a small topic, let me stop here talking further about Dr. Yingling and let me go
to Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, the great.
If an author has covered his subject in its entire depth and breadth, it would be indicated by the fact that no
other author would venture or dare to write another book on the same title. Yes, after Samuel Lilienthal, no one
dared to write a work with the title HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS.
We have all along been struggling with repertories and materia medicas. But nobody is able to get more than
10-30% of success, that too at the first visit of the patient. Thus and therefore a lateral thinking in bringing out a
more sensible and useful or near-unfailing reference work is needed and hats off to Dr. Samuel Lilienthal for his
work "Homoeopathic Therapeutics". (Hereinafter called Lilienthal's.) You call it Materia Medica or Repertory or
by any other name, it is par excellence. The superiority of this reference work (excepting, of course, Dr. Yingling)
can be demonstrated by the following:
1. Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy. (See Case Nos. 1 to 5 in the following pages.)
2. Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal), "... it is
an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret..." Sameul A. Jones said
about Lilienthal's book: "For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable... to the older one who says he has
no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill."
(a) Among medical sciences, homoeopathy is the shortcut to cure patients gently, quickly and permanently.
(b) To find a homoeopathic remedy for a patient, Lilienthal's is the short cut.
(Dr. Hahnemann stresses is Section 213 of the Organon that the cure is not possible without selecting the
remedy on mind symptoms.)
(c) The chapter `Melancholia' (and `Insanity' `Hysteria' `Emotions' `Hypochondriasis') is the shortcut to the use
of Lilienthal's.
The following cases would illustrate (a) what is meant by `mind symptom' and (b) that useful mind symptoms in

a case may be one or two only.

CASE 1: A lady of forty-two came with a big stone in the gall bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised
surgery was the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two
caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down.
Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and that she must
safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (See the chapter
`Melancholia' in Lilienthal's) we find the following words:
"Afraid she may not have enough to live on."
Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given at bedtime. Not only her general health improved, but also the size
of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 2: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors.
They showed me a file containing the diagnostic and other papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the
relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, "Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out
and do our business work. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my
children, they should only tell me that I am all right and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging
me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient."
[The reader may note here that in most cases the `uncommon' symptoms (on which we can make a
prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the
prescription!)]
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from his or her
relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing in
his case.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
" a feeling of moral deficiency" Kali brom.
" despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation" Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
We are quoting this not as a case report but it is an actual case to illustrate how to translate the words of the
patient into a mind symptom.
The `uncommon mind symptom' may, in most cases, be one only. In the above renal failure case, the above
quoted symptom cannot be classified in any existing rubrics in the repertory. Homoeo software would be of utter
failure. The practitioner must memorise the symptom of the above two remedies and keep it in his finger tips.
Homoeopathic practice is not a mechanical work but it is artistic. Therefore homoeo software would but be a
mockery.
To illustrate this point, let us examine more cases; in all the following three cases, only one "uncommon" mind
symptom was present and the reader, after studying the three cases, would at once agree that with homoeo
software he cannot do anything to find the similimum.
CASE 3: A lady of 55, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She
lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is less than one kilometer from my
clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing
no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute
treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I assured total relief. Since the acupressure
doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, "I have to
come all the way from ... (her place of residence.)"

During the last three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my
clinic. Sunday is holiday for the school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all the
way from her residence thirteen kilometers away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure and 100% cure was also
assured. Therefore, travelling 13 kilometre cannot be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show
the reader how we selected the remedy on this symptom let us see two more cases .
CASE 4: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday morning for two hours. She
consulted for her complaints and got partial relief of her ailments. Once she said, "Doctor, can you give onedose treatment for my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every week
he has to take drugs?" I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him completely.
Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or something
immoral. To this she replied, "For this I have to bring him all the way from my home" (which is just ten
kilometers away.)
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for that he is going to get total relief permanently) she
hesitates.
Only if you actually listen to the patient's reply in person you may understand this. Let me explain and elaborate
on this.
Suppose you (the reader of this book) are my student and one day I ask you to murder a certain person. What
would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: "Sir, I have to " (The sentence would be
incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your conscience.)
In the abovesaid case No .3 and 4, for merely travelling twelve kilometres, they have lot of hesitation as if I am
asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are overconscious of a trivial thing. The apt
term would be "Conscientious scruples." This symptom is in the remedy Aresenicum album. [See Lilienthal - p.
694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the computer-software or `remedy
finders' are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above case of sinusitis,
case and even acupressure treatment was not given.
CASE 5: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To
this he replied, "Money is" (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do
some big immoral act.) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives.
But he does neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a given patient. In some
cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
The above two cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various
remedies given under `Melancholia' in Lilienthal (which runs just to eleven pages) he would be able to select the
remedy in more than fifty per cent of cases that too at the very first attempt.
The reader must remember once again the remarks of Samuel A-Jones in his review of Lilienthal: "To the older
one who says he has no use of Lilienthal, he is a good one to dread when ill."
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a copy of Lilienthal and does not make use of it.
Dr. Kent had observed (in his Lectures on Mat. Med.) that in respect of many remedies mind symptoms have
not been brought out in proving. This need not deter us because we have equally good tools for selecting the
remedy`uncommon' and `general' symptoms.
I had already quoted Lilienthal saying, "Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy." Let me illustrate
this with three cases treated.

CASE 6: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: "Doctor, look at him. The boy is making constant
movements of his fingers. He often becomes violent and restless. This started six months ago. We went to
allopathic hospital and they diagnosed his case as worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even double
the adult dose of it had no effect. Then we went to a homeopathy specialist. (She showed me the
prescription: "Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-30 daily night, for one month".) He has completed one
month course of these two remedies but no result."
I looked at the boy again and the case sheet. `Case sheet' means plain white sheet on which we start writing
down one below the other what all the patient and/or his relatives tell us. After a pause, the mother told me with
wide open eyes, "Doctor, ever since he developed worm complaint he often complains of headache and vertigo.
Why is it so doctor?"
The words `vertigo and headache' told by the mother (which is an `uncommon' symptom in worm complaint)
were found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa among the thirty-seven remedies given under the chapter
WORM AFFECTIONS in Lilienthals. This remedy in 200th potency, single dose, cured worm symptoms as well
as his skin complaint.
CASE 7: Fifteen years of sore throat and constipation completely and permanently cured with one single dose.
A certain middle aged patient came to me at 3 p.m. asking if I can give him some throat paint for his sore throat.
I told him that I would give pills only and asked him to tell me how long he is suffering etc. (something to make
the patient talk about his complaints.) He replied:
"Doctor, I have this for fifteen years. Daily at 3-4 p.m. it starts, so much burning in mouth and throat that in the
evening I am unable to do poojas (he is a priest in Hindu temple and there he has to use loud voice to utter
verses during worship etc.) loudly because my voice becomes husky. The burning pain would continue in the
night, but next morning there won't be any pain.
In this case only one symptom is prominent "< evening, night."
I went through all the remedies under the chapter SORE THROAT in Lilienthal. The symptom "< evening" was
found under the remedies Alumina, Hepar, Natr. mur and Silicea. But in Alumina it is "< evening and night."
Further, under the remedy Alumina the words "clergyman's sore throat < evening and nightwith husky
voice" suited the case. Just to confirm the remedy (since it is one of the remedies for chronic and obstinate
constipation) I asked him about his bowel movements, to which he replied that he would pass stool once in 3-4
days.
Alumina-10M, single dose, cured his chronic sore throat as well as constipation. (I never knew that he got
complete cure till one day when I casually visited the temple in which that priest was doing poojas. I had even
forgotten him. Looking at me he immediately removed a big garland from around the neck of the deity and put it
on me (this is a sign of honoring V.I.P.s in Hindu temples). I was rather puzzled. He gave me fruits etc., and
came out with me till the entrance while other big heads were waiting by paying heavy amount etc. That night I
narrated this to my house-owner who does part-time work in that temple and he said that I was honoured
because my prescription of one single dose completely cured that priest, which he used to recall almost daily.
Yes, drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!

Sometime you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to select a remedy for a patient.
(For this I use Boericke's Materia Medica and Hering's Guiding Symptoms). But once you find the remedy,
subsequent cases requring that remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting herein cases treated and their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the reader how and what
exactly homoeopathy practice is. As one cannot learn swimming without first getting into the water, nor car
driving without first sitting on the wheel, so also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To
that extent only I am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic.
As already said in the beginning of this paper I am a free-lance medical journalist and so I took the following two

cases as a challenge to homoeopathy. These two cases would illustrate the reader how rich, exact and accurate
(and also complete) our existing materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of
the use of the reference books viz., Lilienthal, Boericke, Kent, Hering's and Calvin B. Knerr (and more
importantly Yingling in the case of emergencies at the time of labor and abortion.).
CASE 8: A patient with chronic headache, after spending millions with various doctors, specialists and
homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years' pain in head, he ended up saying:
"Doctor, if you or any one can cure me of this terrible headache, I won't mind even giving away half of my
property (worth three millions) to that doctor."
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore the last line told by the patient at the end of his report.
If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 millions... I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. (I am a
free lance journalist and not a practising homoeopath) and told him that he may first pay me ten thousand
rupees and also give me one week's time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few
doses) in two week's time I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me
another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees.
I took a copy of Boericke's Materia Medica and went to a professor English in a college and requested him to
render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter `Mind' in all the remedies
in Boerick's Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who
says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the
professor said is more than sufficient for the work)It may take a few days, daily spending two or three hours to
go through the lines given under the chapter `Mind' in Boericke's 688 pages materia medica.
To another profesor of English I went with Hering's Guiding symptoms (ten volumes) and paying him the
remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter
`Mind' in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he
finds any thing equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boericke's) could not find any suitable line. But the second professor underlined and
pointed out the following lines under the remedy Stillingia (under `Mind' in Hering's)
"deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains."
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. [After this case I
cured two patients both of whom said the above words (ready to give me his entire wealth to me) with the
homoeo remedy Stillingia.]
CASE 9: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: "Doctor, all these years I
have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it.
Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation." I
told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand rupees I went
to the two professors, one with Boericke and the other with Hering's 10 volumes. In this case the professor
going through Boericke's Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy
Salenium.
"Extreme sadness, abject despair, uncompromising melancholy."
Selenium 10M one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the abovesaid professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them that I
practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy.
Conclusion:
1. Homoeopathy is complete in her existing armamentarium of materia medicas.
2. If you have a good teacher of homoeopathy you can go to the top in a year or two.

Salient features of Hering's Guiding symptoms (10 volumes) and Boeicke's Mat. Medica.
Certain symptoms cannot be classified under any rubric and so the Repertory becomes of no use in such cases.
The following would illustrate that the practitioner should keep such symptoms under his finger tip so that he
may make ready use of them when told by a patient.
In Boericke we find the following: (Name of the remey under which they appear are given in brackets at the end
of the symptoms)
l. "Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest
symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pain in the limbs, the skin and febrile
symptoms, in the evenings." [Ammonium mur.]
2. Mind."Sadunreasonable. Skin.Faintly developed eruptions with defective vitality. " [Ammon-carb.]
3. "Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups." [Cuprum met.]
A practitioner would not and cannot understand the use of the following symptoms in Hering's Guiding
symptoms (l0 volumes) unless a teacher points them out to them with actual cases treated.
l. "The inflammation . . . runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts." [Belladonna.]
2. "Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles." [Opium.]
3. ". . . depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other . . ."
4. "Haemorrhagic exudations. " [Anthracinum.]
Let us now see hereinbelow cases treated with the above remedies:
CASE 10: A patient consulted me for constipation. Even laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use. He
further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he
would get convulsions.
The symptom under Opium (in Hering's Materia Medica) agrees with this case: "Increased irritability and
action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles"
When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are
not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them
(increased irritability and action).
Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so
and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
CASE 11: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in
spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, "Doctor, ever since the accident I feel
numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg
anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident."
We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or indicates the remedy to us. In
Hering's Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case:
"depression of vital power on one side
and increased irritability on the other"
Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
CASE 12: The one symptom in the remedy Belladonna will highlight what is meant by `uncommon symptom';
also it would illustrate the uniqueness and superiority of Hering's Materia Medica. A patient came in with pain in

the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file
(given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:
hydroureteronephrosisLeft kidney. Pain in femoral part of urethra pain in sacral region.
His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is something
rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affectionureter.
Under the remedy Belladonna (Hering's Materia Medica) we find the following: "Inflammation of internal
organs The inflammation runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts."
(Femoral part of urethra and pain in sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter) Belladonna10M, single dose, cured him.
CASE 13: Two years after case No. 12 above, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis. These patients get
pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable
pain in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.)
Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.